… which the proudest parts of our vaunted civilization have come, in a state of confusion. Men distrust each other; … are born only to grow up into an unlovely maturity, or to die before they, know the years of seasoned thought. And … art and hope are reported on by an individual who is also a person. And then Sudermann brings us back into …
Essays
… boy plays in an abandoned boat in what used to be the Aralsk Harbor. Brothers look out the train window at what used … been forbidden to pray. Mira’s reasons, however, were more complex; she hoped to one day adorn herself in hijab when … marriage town, there is something about Aralsk that has died. It is a beach town with no sea, a surreal endless …
Fiction
… for the Saturday flea market. There are many ways of communicating in New York. One is through the names of Wi-Fi … being gifted at soccer wasn’t enough to become a coach. You also needed English. He struggled with the language, went at … out a niche in the first-floor landing. “When people died in these houses,” she said cheerfully, “the wakes used …
… noun to identify this burgeoning branch of history. It recommended the little known and little used holocaust , from … a light sentence.) Memories of the tortured past do not die, though they may eventually fade away. From a comparative perspective, as Weinberg points out, France was fortunate to save three-fourths of …
… and translations. Reading through four decades of work, comprising almost 250 poems, invitingly arranged in reverse … fission, is fueled by the fire of procreation which is also the fire of de-creation. Because the end of time … trail of Plath’s descending comet: And Edna Ward shall die in fifteen years, After her eight-and-eighty summers of …
… process. The idea that money could be made out of bipedal locomotion stimulated interest to such an extent that, a few … Me., to Chicago, Ill., a distance of 1,227 miles, in 26 secular days. He rested on the Sabbath, and he gained two … coats. Musicians composed Weston marches, and young ladies danced to Weston waltzes. “The notoriety attendant upon …